"...Not very long ago, in the top left-hand corner of
Wales, there was a railway. It wasn't a very long railway or a very important
railway, but it was called The Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited,
and it was all there was.
And in a shed, in a siding at the end of the railway, lives the Locomotive of the
Merioneth and Llantisilly Rail Traction Company Limited, which was a long name for a
little engine so his friends just called him Ivor..."

So began, in 1959, the first episode of the first series of a set of television films
which were to become part of the mainstream of Children's television for the next thirty
years.

Thanks to Alan Bound for the game - I have scanned it in now!Thanks also to James Rowles for the episode list on the Ivor and the Elephants
videoThanks to Maureen Albrecht for sending me the wallpaper!Final thanks to Lisa Clayton-Jones for picking me up on the origins of Idris